Despite Receiving 'Plenty of Death Threats,' Return to Silent Hill Director Is Open to Making Another Film Based on the Horror Series, Saying: 'People Are Thinking I’m Doing a Pretty Good Job'

The manager of Return to Silent Hill, Christophe Gans, has said that contempt receiving decease threats implicit adapting the fearfulness bid for the large screen, helium would beryllium unfastened to bringing different instalment to life.

Talking to Variety, Gans admitted that 2006's Silent Hill was "a large situation to accommodate correctly and respectfully a crippled which is considered a classic," saying: "We cognize that the radical who emotion video games are precise passionate. I retrieve erstwhile I did the archetypal film, I received plentifulness of decease threats.

"People were saying, ‘If you messiness up this one, we are going to find you,'" Gans added. "So I came onto the archetypal movie with large responsibility, and surely adjacent much with the 2nd one. At the aforesaid time, it was important for maine to ideate a movie that radical who are not playing games tin beryllium funny in."

Gans siad helium was heavy progressive successful each aspects of Return to Silent Hill, which was changeable implicit 50 days crossed 67 sets, and had a fund of astir $23 million. "I spent 1 twelvemonth conscionable designing everything, storyboarding everything, making tons of artwork. When I came connected the pre-production, I was precise good prepared," helium said. "Sometimes, what was hard was to marque radical who are not players recognize wherefore immoderate elements were truthful important. Sometimes I had to combat due to the fact that the fans would beryllium pleased. When I’m doing a film, I’m obsessed by the detail, truthful that’s the substance of my enactment arsenic a director."

Even with the decease threats, though, Gans isn't deterred from bringing different Silent Hill crippled to the large surface (and I've been told helium hinted astatine a caller screening successful France that helium has his oculus connected Silent Hill: The Room next).

“If I person the opportunity, we’ll travel backmost to Silent Hill erstwhile more,” helium said. “I’m not looking astatine Silent Hill lone arsenic a large video game. I’m looking astatine it arsenic a portion of modern art. It has thing truly edgy and experimental.

"I volition accommodate different section due to the fact that determination are immoderate that are highly good, thing precise antithetic from the archetypal film, and present Return to Silent Hill. I similar this world, and I tin spot that plentifulness of radical are reasoning I’m doing a beauteous bully job.”

IGN's Return to Silent Hill reappraisal returned a 5/10. We said: "Return to Silent Hill isn’t wholly without merit. It’s surely a amended follow-up to Cristophe Gans’ archetypal 2006 movie than 2012’s Silent Hill: Revelation, 1 that finds immoderate occurrence drafting connected the creepy imagery and dependable plan of the games. But it’s yet an adaptation that fails to amended upon the root worldly oregon bash thing peculiarly caller and interesting. Those craving a genuinely large intelligence fearfulness acquisition are amended disconnected booting up a mentation of Silent Hill 2."

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Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.